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Steam forcing updates to Win 10/11 to play games - do you actually "own" games bought through Steam? (inv.tux.pizza)

submitted 2 years ago by CifrareVerba@lemmy.world to c/PCGaming@kbin.social

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[–] eu@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago (19 children)

For this, really? Those Windows versions reached EOL a long time ago, basically no one should be even running them nowadays. If you want to run Steam then just use a supported operating system, like Windows 10 (and above) or Linux.

[–] Hairyblue@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

EOL Windows gets no patches or security updates. No one should be running them.

I switched to Linux when windows 11 was released. It's donate or free and can run on old PC hardware.

[–] Enttropy@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Good for you. Me, on the other hand, I like living on the edge since no one should be running older OSes. B-)

I don't want Windows 10 or 11, and certainly not Linux, of all things, to run on the retro PCs that I've put together to run their respective OS, and games from their respective eras. But what do I know?

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